My Household`s Liliana-san Volume 2 Chapter 8 Part 3
This year was already off to a good start, judging by the fact that Tatsuya was able to go and pay a first shrine visit of the year in the company of Liliana and China, and not only Keima, as was true in the previous years. It was filling his heart up with the kind of joy that was making all of his steps feel naturally lighter.
However, Tatsuya’s head could not come up with anything that couples could do together on this exact day, and what Keima was clearly alluding to all this time.
「Come on, man! There is only one thing that all lovers are supposed to do at the very beginning of the year! It’s a given! A staple, even!」
「Sorry, man, but I really don’t know.」
Tatsuya was so overwhelmed by Keima’s antics, but Keima himself seemed to be growing more and more irritated by the second.
He turned his gaze to their two female companions once more, but both Liliana and China hadn’t been able to think of anything in the same way as him. Liliana had a wry smile on her face, while China looked about ready to give up and looked down at her own feet with great interest.
「GAAAHHH!!! DUDE!!! It’s sad! So really, really sad! It’s because of people like you, Tatsuya, all around the world that we have the problem of declining birth rates! Listen, man, when the new year comes around, there is only one thing that all lovers are supposed to be doing! It’s suppossed to be Hime-Fucking-Hajime, dude!!!」
Keima cried out those words from the depths of his soul, and his screams echoed all over the area, causing many passers-by to stop in their tracks and look at him.
「Whoa……!? Dude!? The hell are you saying out loud out in the open all of a sudden……!?」
It would be a lie if Tatsuya said he was not interested in that particular topic, but that was hardly the problem right here and right now.
If he yelled out those words in the streets like that, it was only natural that it would get the people’s attention and that they would find themselves dead in its center.
But Keima did not seem to care about that at all.
「Since both China and I are in love with one another, there is nothing for us to be ashamed about, isn’t it!?」
「Dude! Have you ever heard a saying that there is time and place for everything in this world!? Just take a look around you!」
「Karaoke and watching movies are all fine when you are doing it with friends. But then, since it’s the New Year that we celebrate together, shouldn’t we actually be spending it at home flirting, getting hot and busy as we do it over and over and over a—— NUBUEEEEAAAGGGGHHH!?!?!?」
Keima’s body, which was heating up more and more, suddenly bent in an unnatural way, the likes of which a human body should never actually bend.
China, who decided that Tatsuya’s soothing words would have no effect on Keima, forced him to shut up by delivering a blow to his body that was as fast and strong as that of a lightning bolt striking the ground.
「…… For the time being, how about we just leave this place?」
While everyone around them were blinded by the sheer force and effectiveness of China’s blow, China grabbed Keima by the collar and started running, followed by Tatsuya and Liliana in a fit of panic.
「That was actually kind of amazing from China-san!」
「As expected of Umisawa-san. But on the other hand, I do feel kind of sorry for her.」
Once Tatsuya and Liliana returned home, they remembered the previous exchange between Keima and China and both of them smiled wryly.
In the end, Keima, who was knocked out by China’s strong blow, showed no sign of waking up anytime soon, so China left the shrine and returned to the train station, where she parted with the two of them and went back home while dragging Keima alongside the ground.
Even Tatsuya thought that it was only natural for him to be beaten up like that because he was constantly calling out “Hime Hajime this!” and “Hime Hajime that!” in a really crowded public space, so Keima actually reap what he had sown.
However, the reason as to why Keima acted like that was partially because he wanted to declare his intentions to his dear lover, but also as to make a public announcement to all of those potential pesky bugs around them to lay off. However, in doing so he clearly went overboard, and the consequences of that were as everyone could see them.
Although China could be really strong-willed at times, her appearance was very well-groomed and tidy, and in fact, amongst the people surrounding them at the shrine, there were many people who were looking at China with lustful eyes way more than they were looking at Liliana.
To a certain extent, Tatsuya could understand how Keima was feeling, but he couldn’t agree with him for choosing a public Hime Hajime announcement as the most suitable bug repellant.
As a result of that, Keima might have succeeded in repelling the soft-hearted men away, but even after realizing that the price was to be China’s iron fist punishment, he could probably easily imagine where things were going at this rate.
「China-san, her face was bright red.」
「Ah, yeah, come to think of it, that’s exactly what happened.」
If Tatsuya was in the same position as her, he would definitely have elected to forcefully silence Liliana up in order to avoid embarrassing himself and her in the public like that.
「By the way, Tatsuya-san?」
「Hmm? What is it, Liliana-san?」
「What exactly is this whole “Hime Hajime” that Keima-san was talking about earlier?」
「Bueah!? Ahh, umm, this is…… Are we seriously going to have that particular conversation?」
「Yes, I would like to know what this thing is all about. Especially since it is a custom that my sister never mentioned in any of her letters.」
Hearing Liliana’s explanation, Tatsuya had no other way but to agree that this logic of hers was really sound here.
Liana’s knowledge of Japan and its customs was largely based on the information obtained from the letters that her sister was sending her.
If you were to think about it in common sense, no matter how close she would be with her sister, there was no way that she would tell Liliana what a Hime Hajime is. Not in a million years.
Thinking back on the matter some more, Tatsuya and China were the only two people who were flustered by the fact that Keima made such a bold remark out in the open like that, and that was the main reason behind as to why Liliana had such a puzzled expression on her face.
(No wonder she is curious about that thing, especially since it managed to get a reaction like that out of us. I should have stayed calm there……)
Even though Liliana did not understand what was going on at the time, she must have understood that it was about something intimate or indecent, especially since it caused China to become so embarrassed and forced her to knock Keima’s lights out in order to shut him up. And surely enough, that blow of hers was one of the greatest that they happened to witness since the moment they have started to hang out together.
「So, about that Hime Hajime thing, Tatsuya-san……」
「Ah, you see, umm…… This is……」
Tatsuya has had sex with Liliana more times than he could count at this point, but it was quite embarrassing for him to explain it to her in an easy-to-understand way.
Right now, for better or worse, he envied Keima for being able to be so honest with himself.
「……Tatsuya-san?」
Liliana stared at Tatsuya with curiosity, seeing that he was hesitating quite a bit for some reason.
But even if Tatsuya chose to remain silent here, there were still plenty of ways in which Liliana would be able to find out on her own.
So it might actually be for the best if Tatsuya was to break the news to her, in the most delicate of a way that he could possibly think of.
「…… People used to say that it originally referred to the first horse-riding that the nobles would do when the New Year comes around. Then there is an explanation that the term in question refers to the very first laundry that people do in the new year. There was also a meaning connected with food and cuisine, when you put red bean paste on your rice and things like that. But that was all in the past, and nowadays the meaning of the term is completely different from what it used to be. So before anyone even knew it, “Hime Hajime” became a term that would describe the very first sexual intercourse that a couple would have after the New Years……」
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